For the living and the dead : the funerary laments of upper Egypt, ancient and modern /: the funerary laments of upper Egypt, ancient and modern. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elizabeth Wickett.
• Other Names: Wickett, Elizabeth
• Contents: Part I. The ethnography of lament: an introduction to the idid. 1. 'They go down barefoot like us, the women scorned': the laments of Kom Lolah --- 2. Strange contexts: the laments of Luxor --- 3. Life in the women's domain --- 4. Contemporary lament performance: the funeral and the mourning ---- Part II. How laments acquire meaning. 5. The hermeneutics of lament: signs, symbols and referents --- 6. The performance of emotion: rhetoric, auhtenticity and the boundaries of grief --- 7. The Contemporary Laments: concordance and thematic analysis ---- Part III. The cosmology of the afterlife. 8. Ancient Egyptian Lamentation: kinesics, performance and the semiotics of gesture --- 9. The Pyramid Texts: orality, structure and cosmology --- 10. Cosmologies of Lament: from ancient to modern --- 11. Towards a Cosmology of the Afterlife: continuities and transformations ---- Appendix A: Comparative Index of Lament Themes ---- Appendix B: Detailed Concordance of Ancient Lament Themes.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 307 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 892.7/16; Laments -- Egypt -- History and criticism; Funeral music -- Egypt -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM -- African; Funeral music; Laments; Totenklage; Egypt; Ägypten; Ägypten; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441676566; 1441676562; 9780857712684; 0857712683
• Related ISBNs: 9781848850507; 1848850506
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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